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Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals
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Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals

Financial Times · Feb 17, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware

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